Altruism Quote by Margaret Mead

“It will be seen how subjectivism and objectivism, spiritualism and materialism, activity and suffering, only lose their antithetical character, and thus their existence, as…

— Robert C. Tucker

“Enmity shapes our consciousness and identity.”

— Karen Armstrong

“The idea of the individual is actually an ingenious solution to a difficult social-philosophical problem: Should we focus on society as a whole, or…

— Hanzi Freinacht

“It is by looking at deep psychological issues, the inner development of each of us, and how such properties are generated within society, that…

— Hanzi Freinacht

“Consciousness - what we call our identity- is always unstable, always at risk of sabotage from the unacceptable feelings of loss and desire which…

— Rosalind Minsky

“You must again realize that we speak of the self as being so divided only for simplicity’s sake. While the self is whole, it…

— Jane Roberts

“There are tumults of the mind, when, like the great convulsions of Nature, all seems anarchy and returning chaos; yet often, in those moments…

— William Gibson

In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But all this…

— Terry Eagleton

The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own.…

— Emile Durkheim

[Having] appropriated to itself all conscious intelligence in the universe ...Man faces the existential crisis of being a solitary and mortal conscious ego thrown…

— Richard Tarnas

“Life as we know, and partially understand it, is a classical example of what can occur when a sufficient level of complexity is attained.…

— John D. Barrow

“Individuality, conceived as a temporal development involves uncertainty, indeterminacy, or contingency. Individuality is the source of whatever is unpredictable in the world…genuine time, if…

— John Dewey